What is your goal?
I want to know if my scenario was set up wrongly.
What is the problem?
I set up my first scenario with help of Maia AI yesterday. My goal is to cross-post between 2 social media accounts. Yesterday I thought it worked fine, but now I noticed that all my free credits are spent because the scenario checks every 15 minutes if there’s a new post to share.
I have experience with Zapier, which works based on a trigger. That would be New post created → Execute task (in this case cross-post). It doesn’t do anything the rest of the time.
I was expecting the same here.
Did I (Maia AI) set it up the wrong way or is this just how Make works?
Hi @Sara_Rey,
There are different way’s to kick off a scenario. You can use a trigger (Step 5. Set up the trigger - Help Center), which most of the time is an external trigger that executes the scenario whenever something happens. I.e.: the thing happens and only then the scenario runs.
There is also scenario scheduling (Schedule a scenario - Help Center). This is way Maia has set up for you. Not wrong in any sense, but different. At set intervals, the scenario is executed. For example, the first module is a module that fetches any updates and if there are any, they are processed by the scenario.
Modules that execute immediately as triggers are called “instant triggers.” Not all apps have modules that are instant, but most do.
An instant trigger starts a scenario as soon as new data arrives from a service. Instead of checking periodically, the external service notifies Make directly through a webhook.
Cheers,
Henk
Thank you Henk.
I checked the step and asked Maia for different options too. I’ll take it from here.